EAN: 9780861544912

THINGS THEY LOST - OKWIRI ODUOR KARTONIERT (TB)

     'Magical  beguiling... Carries echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved ' Guardian    A Vulture
'Book We Can't Wait to Read in 2022'    They had not lost anyone that year  or the ones they
had lost were not worth remembering...    Set in the fictional Kenyan town of Mapeli  Things
They Lost tells the story of four generations of women  each haunted by the mysterious curse
that hangs over the Brown family. At the heart of the novel is Ayosa Ataraxis Brown  twelve
years old and the loneliest girl in the world.     Okwiri Oduor's stunningly original debut
novel sings with Kenyan folklore and myth as it traces Ayosa's fragile  toxic relationship with
Nabumbo Promise  her mysterious and beguiling mother who comes and goes like tumbleweed: lost 
but not quite gone.     

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